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...Texas, the legislature became acquainted with a University of Texas student, Wendell Addington, who joined the Communist Party soon after his discharge from the Army in 1946. As youth director for the state of Texas, Addington frequently testified before state legislative committees in opposition to segregation practices and on behalf of antilynching bills...
...occasion, Addington was asked by a legislator if he would defend the United States in a war with Russia. Addington replied that it would depend on who was the aggressor...
...Addington is still in the University...
...last visit, 24-year-old Communist Addington, now a senior, went a little too far. A representative asked him whether he would fight for the U.S. if it went to war with Russia. Addington was evasive, finally mumbled something to the effect that it would depend on who was the aggressor...
Last week, the house and senate unanimously passed a resolution against Addington and his kind. The resolution, which Governor Beauford Jester promised to sign, "authorized, instructed and empowered" the presidents of state colleges and universities to investigate and expel "all or any persons found to be disloyal to this nation." It was not exactly a law, explained House Speaker Durwood Manford, "but stronger than a suggestion." Cried Texas University Footballer "Peppy" Blount, a member of the house and one of the chief backers of the bill: "Academic freedom, huh? The only isms we want in Texas are Texasism and Americanism...